A U.N. mission statement said the suspects included three members of the Kosovo Protection Corps, the civilian force created with international blessing from disbanded units of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Full Story

Italy`s government was thrown into turmoil yesterday when Claudio Scajola, the Interior Minister, resigned after he had provoked outrage for insulting the late Marco Biagi, a government adviserwho was murdered by left-wing terrorists in March. Full Story

The United States Embassy went on maximum alert to guard against retaliation from the group, which is blamed for at least 23 killings, including the assassination in 1975 of Richard Welch, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief here. Full Story

With help from Britain and the US, Greek officials uncovered a hideout for the group November 17. Police confirmed Thursday that they had uncovered a hideout containing weapons belonging to the group called “November 17,” which has claimed responsibility for 22 murders in Greece, including the slayings of four US officials, since 1975. Full Story

Police Commissioner Fotis Nassiakos told reporters that a botched bomb attack last weekend severely wounded a foot soldier in the group and led authorities to a hide-out and a significant weapons cache at a studio apartment on the ground floor of a residential building in the heart of Athens. Full Story

A man investigated in a crackdown on suspected Islamic extremists in Hamburg, the city where three September 11 suicide hijackers lived, had been working for the police, police said on Saturday. Full Story

The United States is spending $64 million to train troops in ex-Soviet Georgia to fight al-Qaida linked terrorists but the Georgian military can`t get enough of its soldiers to sign up for the program. Full Story

Czech police said on Monday they had seized some 75 pounds of Semtex, the plastic explosive believed to have been used in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm jet over Lockerbie in Scotland which killed 270 people. Full Story

Three police officers and a suspected Islamic militant were killed Friday in a shootout during a raid on an apartment in the southeastern Turkish city of Elazig, a news agency reported. Full Story

The U.S. military will conduct new exercises against Abu Sayyaf insurgents in the southern Philippines after they complete operations on Basilan island, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Monday. Full Story

U.S. troops will train two more Philippine special forces units and instruct an additional eight regular infantry battalions under a new security assistance plan worked out in recent days by political and military authorities in both countries, Pentagon officials said. Full Story

Pakistan authorities have arrested three people over a series of deadly bomb attacks including one last month on the U.S. consulate in Karachi, the head of the investigating force said Monday. Full Story

Pakistan`s alliance with Washington against al Qaeda and the Taliban has long been a ticklish subject here. But as the military steps up operations against the remnants of both groups, some Pakistanis are expressing growing concern about the wisdom of waging war on a declared enemy they do not consider a threat on behalf of…

From Lahore to Karachi to Kohat, FBI agents and U.S. Army Special Forces working side by side with Pakistani security forces in their fight against terrorism have attracted the attention, but not the gratitude, of Pakistanis. Full Story

A bomb blast rocked the new political party office of Nepal`s prime minister in the capital, Kathmandu, on Friday and 10 people were slightly hurt, police said. Full Story

The leader of the rebel Shan State Army (SSA) may be meeting with Myanmar`s military to informally discuss a ceasefire agreement. The rebel army`s spokeswoman Nang Khur Hsen told AFP on Saturday that Colonel Yawd Serk and a group of SSA troops left their base Thursday and were travelling to an area west of the…

Myanmar`s military government on Saturday rejected allegations that its troops had used rape as a weapon of war against girls and women of the Shan ethnic minority in the Golden Triangle region. Full Story

Rebels in Indonesia`s troubled Aceh province have freed all 18 hostages held since last month, including crew from a boat carrying supplies to an Exxon Mobil plant, security officials and the rebels said on Saturday. Full Story

Aceh separatist rebels slammed a statement by an Indonesian minister branding them terrorists as an “irresponsible and desperate” attempt to discredit the movement. Top security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced Thursday the government planned to declare a state of civil emergency in Aceh province if parliament approved the proposal and called Free Aceh Movement (GAM)…

Two soldiers and two separatist rebels were killed on Saturday in fighting in Indian-ruled Kashmir, the state at the heart of a military standoff between India and Pakistan, police said. Full Story

China vowed Monday to punish members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement who hijacked state-run satellite signals during the soccer World Cup finals in one of the group`s most daring protests to date. Full Story

The Chinese authorities say increasing numbers of internet service providers (ISPs) are signing an agreement to control the material the public can view on the web. Full Story

Leftist rebels demand that government officials resign, or else. Since mid-June, the rebel leadership has systematically threat ened every mayor of Colombia`s 1,098 municipalities, along with city council members, government employees and provincial governors. Full Story

A mutiny against a prominent faction leader entered a second day Friday, with street fighting in the city of Baidoa leaving eight militiamen dead and injuring 25 others, including civilians, witnesses said. Full Story

Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana`s generals planned their final offensive on Saturday to take full control of the island, a day after former ruler Didier Ratsiraka fled. Full Story

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it`s expanding its operations in Liberia in light of renewed rebel attacks. The group says an upsurge in the long-smoldering civil war has brought on a growing humanitarian crisis in the West African country. Full Story

A leading newspaper warned on Saturday that the attack, the deadliest this year, could mean that Islamic rebels had recovered lost ground after army swoops. The blast, on the country`s 40th independence anniversary, rocked the market at Larba, 15 miles south of Algiers, early in the day when it was packed with shoppers. Full Story

Derided as a club for dictators and a useless bureaucratic talk shop, the Organization of African Unity will hardly be missed when it disbands Tuesday. The 53-nation body is being replaced by the African Union, a new organization modeled on the European Union that hopes to closely bind its members together, promote human rights and…

Ab- dul Qadir, a vice president and cabinet minister in the Afghan government and a key political figure for 25 years, was assassinated just after noon today as his vehicle left his ministry compound in the capital. Full Story

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has set up a five-member delegation to investigate the assassination of one of the country`s three vice presidents. Full Story

As Afghans around the country mourned the killing of a vice president, Afghan officials said today that they were investigating the possibility that he had been killed by drug lords who had been double-crossed during a Western-backed campaign to destroy the country`s poppy crop. Full Story

An almost forgotten computer attack two years ago that pumped raw sewage into an Australian water supply is now at the centre of US investigations into the global threat of cyber-terrorism. Full Story

A terrorist-sponsored cyberattack against major U.S. networks and businesses is no longer a question of if, but when and to what extent, according to former senior intelligence and security officials. Full Story

Power and energy companies are fast becoming a primary target of computer hackers who have managed to penetrate energy control networks as well as administrative systems, according to government cyber-terrorism officials and private security experts. Experts cite a number of potential sources for the post-Sept. 11 increase in hacker attacks, including industrial espionage and malicious…

An international group of “hacktivists” says it is about to release a computer program designed to let political dissidents communicate via the internet without fear of government eavesdropping. Hacktivismo, an international group of programmers and activists, says the program, named Camera/Shy, will make it simple to bury encrypted information in innocuous-looking images that can then…

The number of reports of computer virus damage in Japan in the first six months of the year has already surpassed the total for all of 2001, software firm Trend Micro Inc. said Friday. The number of cases reported between January and June to the Tokyo-based firm, which specializes in developing antivirus programs, stood at…

Internet attacks against public and private organizations around the world leapt 28 percent in the past six months, with most targeting technology, financial services and power companies, according to an industry report due out today. The report, conducted by the Internet security firm Riptech Inc. of Alexandria, indicated that the information backbone upon which many…

The internet underground is warming up for hackfest H2K2, which will take place next weekend (13 July) in New York. One of the most eagerly awaited features of the event will be the launch of a steganography tool that will allow information to be shared across the internet without fear of perusal from unauthorised eyes.…

A radical, leftist terrorist group that first appeared in the late 1980s. Attacks made in protest of US intervention in Honduran economic and political affairs. Attacks on US, mainly military, personnel in Honduras. Claimed responsibility for attack on a bus in March 1990 that wounded seven US servicemen. Claimed bombing of Peace Corps office in…

Countering the New Terrorism is a compilation of articles from some of the best and brightest analysts at RAND. Bruce Hoffman, one of the foremost authorities on terrorism, describes his views on terrorism trends and prospects, while the authors of “netwar,” Arquilla, Ronfeldt, and Zanini discuss networks, netwar, and information-age terrorism. The editor, Ian Lesser,…

07/05/1962Algeria – Independence from France formally declared. 07/05/1983Australia – Unknown terrorists detonated a bomb outside of the Union Carbide factory in Sydney. 07/05/1991Bolivia – The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) carried out its first terrorist act — blowing up an electric power pylon in the La Paz suburb of El Alto — on this date.…

August 12-13, 2002 — Boston, MAParticipants will examine: * Terrorist Attack Profiles * Terrorist Training * Terrorist Tactics * Terrorist Targeting * Emerging Technologies * Threat of Cyberterrorism * Newest Aviation Security Threat Information This class led by nationally recognized terrorism experts. Participants will learn first hand about the current threats from both domestic and…

A gunman opened fire Thursday at Israel`s El Al airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two people before an airline security guard shot him dead, authorities said. Full Story

U.S. authorities on Friday identified the man who opened fire and killed two people at the ticket counter of Israel`s El Al airlines at Los Angeles International Airport as a 41-year-old Egyptian native. Full Story

Police looking for possible links to terrorism searched the apartment of an Egyptian who opened fire at Los Angeles` airport, killing two people at Israel`s El Al ticket counter before being shot to death by a guard. Full Story

Israel said on Friday the naming of an Egyptian as the gunman who attacked its El Al airlines counter at Los Angeles International Airport strengthened its belief the shooting was a “terrorist attack.” But Israeli Transport Minister Ephraim Sneh told Israel Radio: “We said it last night and I`m saying it now — we are…

In Iowa, Rep. Greg Ganske (R) observed Flag Day by posting a reminder on his campaign Web site that Sen. Tom Harkin (D) opposed a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning in 1995. “After the tragic events of Sept. 11,” said the Ganske for Senate Committee, “America has a renewed sense of patriotism and a…

The police in Hamburg today questioned an associate of the presumed ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and five other men because of suspicions that the men were planning unspecified new attacks. Full Story

A federal judge yesterday said she would not stop Zacarias Moussaoui from testifying before Congress or a federal grand jury about his knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, as he had asked this week, and prosecutors apparently are ready to open the grand jury door for him. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, has asked the judge in the case to allow him to meet with reporters. Full Story

German police today detained seven suspected Islamic radicals, including a former roommate of key Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in what officials described as a preemptive strike against a group attempting to build a new terrorist cell in Hamburg. Full Story

As the director for protection and prevention in the Office of Homeland Security, Maj. Gen. Bruce Lawlor is the highest-paid member of the White House staff, with an annual salary of $183,372. His job description: protect the nation in the event of chemical, biological or nuclear attack. Full Story

Bush proposed merging various agencies, scattered around the government, that oversee different aspects of computer security. But the fact that the White House`s draft bill doesn`t mention “cyber-security” or its variations set off furious lobbying on Capitol Hill. Full Story

COMPUTER networks have been used for years by public health officials to monitor outbreaks of disease. Typically, the networks compile a database of reports about sick patients from doctors or other health care workers and look for patterns of illness or symptoms. But the reporting and compiling can take a day or more, delaying detection…

The government is reluctant to require bag matching on all U.S. passenger flights despite a Transportation Security Administration study that recommends doing so quickly to help prevent terrorist attacks. Full Story

An explosion rocked the governing party`s office in the Nepalese capital on Friday, injuring at least six people, police said. The blast occurred on the ground floor of the faction-ridden Nepali Congress party office, which is used by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba`s supporters. He arrived at the office after the blast to assess the…

A bomb exploded Friday at an open-air market east of Algiers, killing 29 people and injuring 37 others, the official APS news agency reported. The attack came on the day that Algerians celebrate their independence from France, won 40 years ago after a brutal seven-year war. Full Story

Police arrested the leader of an Islamic militant group Friday wanted in connection with dozens of sectarian killings in Pakistan, officials said. Hafiz Mohammed Ishaq, a top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, was arrested in Pad Bair village in the North West Frontier Province, said Abdul Majeed Marwat, deputy inspector general of police in…

Enraged by an American airstrike, an Afghan governor on Friday demanded the United States hand over the Afghan men who are providing intelligence on possible al-Qaida and Taliban hide-outs in his province. Full Story

An American military planning document calls for air, land and sea-based forces to attack Iraq from three directions the north, south and west in a campaign to topple President Saddam Hussein, according to a person familiar with the document. Full Story